30 July, 2015 – “Fango e Gloria”, released in 2014 to mark the centenary of the First World War and the 90th anniversary of the Luce Historical Archive, is a film that tells the story of the millions of young people involved in the Great War, using the symbol chosen to represent the huge ranks of fallen: the Unknown Soldier. The film (with Spanish subtitles) will be shown at the Italian Cultural Institute of Buenos Aires on Tuesday, August 4 at 6:30pm. “Fango e Gloria” is the story of Mario, his friends and his girlfriend, members of an anonymous petty bourgeoisie from the province, enthusiastic and full of plans for a future that many of them won’t live. “Fango e Gloria” is a film by Leonardo Tiberi, starring Eugenio Franceschini, Valentina Corti, Domenico Fortunato, and Francesco Martino. Its peculiarity is the fiction mixed with archive material from the Luce Historical Archive.
